Railway-rail support.



L. A. SHRADER.

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A IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 0v. 111111 4. 1,1 28,536. Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

LUCY A. SHRADER, OF Ell-MIRA, NEW YORK.

RAILWAY-RAIL SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

Application filed November 10, 1914. Serial No. 871,309.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LUCY A. SI-IRADER, citizen of the United States, residing at Elmira, in the county of Chemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in railway rail supports, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device whereby rails are supported throughout their entire length both from vertical and lateral movement and displacement.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device which may be applied without structural change to rails of various sizes and forms.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a railway rail. and portions of the meeting ends of one pair of the improved supports. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view from beneath of one of the terminals of one of the rail supports. Figs. 4: and 5 are perspective views of the confronting ends of a pair of the rail supports.

The improved device comprises a support 11 for each rail preferably corresponding in length thereto with the confronting ends of the rails preferably located intermediate the ends of the supports, while the confronting ends of the supports are located intermediate the ends of the rails. The supports are thus arranged to bear beneath the whole lengths of the rails and are formed with upwardly directed side ribs 12 which bear against the opposite edges of the flanges of the rails, so that the rails are supported from both vertical and lateral movement through their whole lengths.

A portion of a rail is represented conventionally at 10 and is of the usual length, about 30 feet.

The central portions of the rail supports, as above noted, are located beneath the joints between the confronting ends of the rails,

while the confronting ends of the supports At their confronting ends the rail supports are provided with interlapping joints constructed as represented in Figs. 3, 4 and 5. At one endeach of the rail supports is reduced to form longitudinal projections 13 at each side which correspond in thickness to the base portion 11 of the support and correspond in width to the ribs 12, as represented in Fig. 5. Extending from the base 11 of the rail support midway between the projections 13, is a thinner projection 14:. At its opposite end each of the rail supports is reduced, as represented at 15, to receive the projections 13 of the adjacent support and likewise provided with a longitudinal cavity 16 to receive the relatively thin projection 1a of the adjacent support, the material of the support between the reduced portions 15 and the cavity 16 forming riblike portions 17 which engage respectively between the projections 13 and 14:. By this means the confronting ends of the rail supports are formed with overlapping joints which firmly unite the parts and effectually prevent displacement both vertically and laterally, while at the same time permitting free movement longitudinally of the supports to provide for the necessary expansion and contraction caused by the changes of temperature between the various members. The length of the overlapping members 13 and 16 and the connecting tongue 14 and socket 16 permitting this expanding and contracting movement without wholly separating the parts or reducing their supporting properties.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively applied, and materially increases the strength, utility and durability of the rails.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. A device of the class described comprising rail supports adapted to be disposed in longitudinal alinement beneath railway rails and having ribs for bearing against the flanges of said rails, the terminal of one of said supports having outer tongues and an intermediate tongue spaced apart and extending longitudinally thereof with the lower faces of the tongues flush with the bottoms of the supports and the other support having downwardly and outwardly opening sockets to receive the outer tongues and an intermediate downwardly opening socket to receive the intermediate tongue.

2'. A'device or the class described comprising rail supports adapted to ,bedisposed in longitudinal alinement beneath railway rails, the terminal of one of said supports having outer tongues and an intermediate tongue spaced apart and extending longituthe flanges of said rails, the terminal of one of said supports having the flange engaging ribs out way for a distahce a) term outer flanges spaced apart and with another tongue intermediate the outer, tongues, said tongues extending longitudinally of the rail supports with the lower faces thereof flush with the bottom of the rail support and the sides of the other support cut away beneath the flange engaging wribs thereof to form downwardly and outwardly opening sockets to receive the outer tongues and with a downwardly opening intermediate socket to receive the intermediate tongue.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature I in presence of two witnesses.

LUCY A. SHRADER.

Witnesses:

MYRTLE PETTENGILL, I MARY M. PET'TENGILL.

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